redhat 7.0

redhat 7.0

[ppopov]

Has anyone tried installing 7.0 that's on oss.sgi.com?  The problem I'm
running into is that after I netboot and mount simple-0.2b as the root
fs, and install the rpm-4.0 tarball, rpm doesn't work with the
libraries, or lack of, of that root fs.  It looks like I need an fs with
a working rpm-4.0, so that I can mount my second disk somewhere and
install the 7.0 packages.  Any suggestions?

Pete

Re: redhat 7.0

[David Jez]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 10:58:07AM -0800, ppopov@pacbell.net wrote:
> 
> Has anyone tried installing 7.0 that's on oss.sgi.com?  The problem I'm
> running into is that after I netboot and mount simple-0.2b as the root
> fs, and install the rpm-4.0 tarball, rpm doesn't work with the
> libraries, or lack of, of that root fs.  It looks like I need an fs with
> a working rpm-4.0, so that I can mount my second disk somewhere and
> install the 7.0 packages.  Any suggestions?
Yes,
If you download rpm-3.0 (I'm not sure, try get newer version) you'll should
be able to work with rpm 4 packages.

> 
> Pete

Best regards,
Dave
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Re: redhat 7.0

[Ralf Baechle]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:49:04AM +0100, David Jez wrote:

> > Has anyone tried installing 7.0 that's on oss.sgi.com?  The problem I'm
> > running into is that after I netboot and mount simple-0.2b as the root
> > fs, and install the rpm-4.0 tarball, rpm doesn't work with the
> > libraries, or lack of, of that root fs.  It looks like I need an fs with
> > a working rpm-4.0, so that I can mount my second disk somewhere and
> > install the 7.0 packages.  Any suggestions?
> Yes,
> If you download rpm-3.0 (I'm not sure, try get newer version) you'll should
> be able to work with rpm 4 packages.

Oss has a tarball with statically linked rpm 4 binaries.  Use that to
convert your rpm database and then install the rpm 4 rpm package for real.

  Ralf

Re: redhat 7.0

[Pete Popov]

Ralf Baechle wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:49:04AM +0100, David Jez wrote:
> 
> > > Has anyone tried installing 7.0 that's on oss.sgi.com?  The problem I'm
> > > running into is that after I netboot and mount simple-0.2b as the root
> > > fs, and install the rpm-4.0 tarball, rpm doesn't work with the
> > > libraries, or lack of, of that root fs.  It looks like I need an fs with
> > > a working rpm-4.0, so that I can mount my second disk somewhere and
> > > install the 7.0 packages.  Any suggestions?
> > Yes,
> > If you download rpm-3.0 (I'm not sure, try get newer version) you'll should
> > be able to work with rpm 4 packages.
> 
> Oss has a tarball with statically linked rpm 4 binaries.  Use that to
> convert your rpm database and then install the rpm 4 rpm package for real.

I tried that; "rpm --rebuilddb" failed because it couldn't find some
library.  I'll try again.

Pete

Linux on Origin 200 (newbie)

[cgut]

Hello,

I'm an absolutely MIPS newbie and before screwing up anything, I wanted to ask
if ever someone tried to install Linux on a Origin 200 Machine?

Chris

Re: Linux on Origin 200 (newbie)

[Mike McDonald]

>From: cgut@calpoly.edu
>Date:   Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:57:56 -0800
>Subject: Linux on Origin 200 (newbie)
>
>Hello,
>
>I'm an absolutely MIPS newbie and before screwing up anything, I wanted to ask
>if ever someone tried to install Linux on a Origin 200 Machine?
>
>Chris

  See the howto at http://oss.sgi.com/mips/mips-howto.html. :-)

  Mike McDonald
  mikemac@mikemac.com

Re: Linux on Origin 200 (newbie)

[nick]

Yes.  It may or may not work . It does not work on my O200.
	Nick

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 cgut@calpoly.edu wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm an absolutely MIPS newbie and before screwing up anything, I wanted to ask
> if ever someone tried to install Linux on a Origin 200 Machine?
> 
> Chris
> 

Re: Linux on Origin 200 (newbie)

[Ralf Baechle]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:08:03PM -0500, nick@snowman.net wrote:

> Yes.  It may or may not work . It does not work on my O200.

Latest theory is that we have a problem which is related to different
versions of various chips of the system.  When it's actually running on
an Origin 200 / 2000 then it's also very reliable.

Aside of that the current list of open bugs for the Origin 200 / 2000 is:

 - we don't have FPU emulation code
 - the performance of the ioc3-eth driver is weak to say the least
 - ioc3-eth doesn't handle autonegotiation correctly
 - the binary compatibility code for running 32-bit apps is less than perfect.
 - we crash on systems with more than 64 processors.  Yes dudes, that's
   tested on real world hardware :-)

  Ralf

Re: Linux on Origin 200 (newbie)

[Ralf Baechle]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:08:03PM -0500, nick@snowman.net wrote:

> Yes.  It may or may not work . It does not work on my O200.

Latest theory is that we have a problem which is related to different
versions of various chips of the system.  When it's actually running on
an Origin 200 / 2000 then it's also very reliable.

Aside of that the current list of open bugs for the Origin 200 / 2000 is:

 - we don't have FPU emulation code
 - the performance of the ioc3-eth driver is weak to say the least
 - ioc3-eth doesn't handle autonegotiation correctly
 - the binary compatibility code for running 32-bit apps is less than perfect.
 - we crash on systems with more than 64 processors.  Yes dudes, that's
   tested on real world hardware :-)

  Ralf

Re: redhat 7.0

[Ralf Baechle]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 04:24:19PM -0800, Pete Popov wrote:

> > Oss has a tarball with statically linked rpm 4 binaries.  Use that to
> > convert your rpm database and then install the rpm 4 rpm package for real.
> 
> I tried that; "rpm --rebuilddb" failed because it couldn't find some
> library.  I'll try again.

Hmm...  I know I went through the procedure when I upgraded posix0 from
5.1 to 7.0, so it's definately to get to work even though it definately
was hairy beyond Joe Average Sysadmin's skills.  Maybe you'll also have to
dump a copy of glibc into the to-be updates system or use the --root
option.  Somebody will have to figure out a reasonably easy to follow
and safe procedure here.

  Ralf

Re: redhat 7.0

[Carsten Langgaard]

Hi Pete

Did you managed to get through the installation of the RedHat 7.0 packages ?
I would like to do something similar.

/Carsten

Pete Popov wrote:

> Ralf Baechle wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:49:04AM +0100, David Jez wrote:
> >
> > > > Has anyone tried installing 7.0 that's on oss.sgi.com?  The problem I'm
> > > > running into is that after I netboot and mount simple-0.2b as the root
> > > > fs, and install the rpm-4.0 tarball, rpm doesn't work with the
> > > > libraries, or lack of, of that root fs.  It looks like I need an fs with
> > > > a working rpm-4.0, so that I can mount my second disk somewhere and
> > > > install the 7.0 packages.  Any suggestions?
> > > Yes,
> > > If you download rpm-3.0 (I'm not sure, try get newer version) you'll should
> > > be able to work with rpm 4 packages.
> >
> > Oss has a tarball with statically linked rpm 4 binaries.  Use that to
> > convert your rpm database and then install the rpm 4 rpm package for real.
>
> I tried that; "rpm --rebuilddb" failed because it couldn't find some
> library.  I'll try again.
>
> Pete

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Re: redhat 7.0

[ppopov]

Carsten Langgaard wrote:
> 
> Hi Pete
> 
> Did you managed to get through the installation of the RedHat 7.0 packages ?
> I would like to do something similar.

I haven't had time to try again. I tried the debian 2_2 tar ball, went
through the partitioning and dvhtool exersize and managed to setup all
of that.  If I try RedHat 7.0 again and manage to install it before
someone else does, I'll send instructions. 


Pete


> Pete Popov wrote:
> 
> > Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:49:04AM +0100, David Jez wrote:
> > >
> > > > > Has anyone tried installing 7.0 that's on oss.sgi.com?  The problem I'm
> > > > > running into is that after I netboot and mount simple-0.2b as the root
> > > > > fs, and install the rpm-4.0 tarball, rpm doesn't work with the
> > > > > libraries, or lack of, of that root fs.  It looks like I need an fs with
> > > > > a working rpm-4.0, so that I can mount my second disk somewhere and
> > > > > install the 7.0 packages.  Any suggestions?
> > > > Yes,
> > > > If you download rpm-3.0 (I'm not sure, try get newer version) you'll should
> > > > be able to work with rpm 4 packages.
> > >
> > > Oss has a tarball with statically linked rpm 4 binaries.  Use that to
> > > convert your rpm database and then install the rpm 4 rpm package for real.
> >
> > I tried that; "rpm --rebuilddb" failed because it couldn't find some
> > library.  I'll try again.
> >
> > Pete
> 
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Re: redhat 7.0

[Carsten Langgaard]

Please Ralf, could you help me here.
I did the same as Pete describe below, and I got the same result.

When I tried "rpm --rebuilddb" it fails because it couldn't find some libraries.
The rpm-tarball contains a statically linked rpm binary, but rpmdb is dynamically
linked, could you please provide me with a statically linked rpmdb binary, that would
be great.

/Carsten


ppopov@pacbell.net wrote:

> Carsten Langgaard wrote:
> >
> > Hi Pete
> >
> > Did you managed to get through the installation of the RedHat 7.0 packages ?
> > I would like to do something similar.
>
> I haven't had time to try again. I tried the debian 2_2 tar ball, went
> through the partitioning and dvhtool exersize and managed to setup all
> of that.  If I try RedHat 7.0 again and manage to install it before
> someone else does, I'll send instructions.
>
> Pete
>
> > Pete Popov wrote:
> >
> > > Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:49:04AM +0100, David Jez wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > Has anyone tried installing 7.0 that's on oss.sgi.com?  The problem I'm
> > > > > > running into is that after I netboot and mount simple-0.2b as the root
> > > > > > fs, and install the rpm-4.0 tarball, rpm doesn't work with the
> > > > > > libraries, or lack of, of that root fs.  It looks like I need an fs with
> > > > > > a working rpm-4.0, so that I can mount my second disk somewhere and
> > > > > > install the 7.0 packages.  Any suggestions?
> > > > > Yes,
> > > > > If you download rpm-3.0 (I'm not sure, try get newer version) you'll should
> > > > > be able to work with rpm 4 packages.
> > > >
> > > > Oss has a tarball with statically linked rpm 4 binaries.  Use that to
> > > > convert your rpm database and then install the rpm 4 rpm package for real.
> > >
> > > I tried that; "rpm --rebuilddb" failed because it couldn't find some
> > > library.  I'll try again.
> > >
> > > Pete
> >
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Re: redhat 7.0

[David Jez]

Hi Carsten,

try this:

  1. install package rpm-3.0.5 from last rh-6.2 updates
  2. then install package rpm-4.0.4
  this may will be OK, because rpm-3.0.5 know rpm-4 packages format.

Try read this, but I'm afraid you will not understand:
http://www.linux.cz/lists/archive/linux/101281.html

good luck
Dave

> Please Ralf, could you help me here.
> I did the same as Pete describe below, and I got the same result.
> When I tried "rpm --rebuilddb" it fails because it couldn't find some libraries.
> The rpm-tarball contains a statically linked rpm binary, but rpmdb is dynamically
> linked, could you please provide me with a statically linked rpmdb binary, that would
> be great.
> > > Did you managed to get through the installation of the RedHat 7.0 packages ?
> > > I would like to do something similar.
> > > > > > > Has anyone tried installing 7.0 that's on oss.sgi.com?  The problem I'm
> > > > > > > running into is that after I netboot and mount simple-0.2b as the root
> > > > > > > fs, and install the rpm-4.0 tarball, rpm doesn't work with the
> > > > > > > libraries, or lack of, of that root fs.  It looks like I need an fs with
> > > > > > > a working rpm-4.0, so that I can mount my second disk somewhere and
> > > > > > > install the 7.0 packages.  Any suggestions?
> > > > > > Yes,
> > > > > > If you download rpm-3.0 (I'm not sure, try get newer version) you'll should
> > > > > > be able to work with rpm 4 packages.

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 E-mail: dave.jez@seznam.cz
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